Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

This is the worst performance by an OSU starting QB since TS in the 06 NCG, granted Smith had about .4 seconds to throw with 2 1st round NFL draft DEs beating his ass.

Think about it, Bauserman looks this bad against a FUCKING MAC TEAM.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.

The D has been good. The offense is unwatchable. It looks like a poorly executed version of the Browns offense under Romeo Crennel.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Yeah, lets see if our defense can play prevent and hold on to the win. That seems like the best strategy right now. There is no chance that our ST will give a punt return for a TD.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Dominick Clarke looks amazing. How do you bench that guy when Howard comes back? Does he take Roby's job?

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

hiko wrote:Somewhat unexplainable, but I find myself a Buckeye fan that kind of wants them to lose this game. I'm going to have to analyze why I feel this way. It makes no sense right now.

No offense, but it's because you suck. Now go fuck yourself.

Not quite bendy enough, sir.

I think it's because I don't want to see the team mired in poor man's Jim Tressel and poor man's Craig Krenzel.

Interesting points.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

hiko wrote:I think it's because I don't want to see the team mired in poor man's Jim Tressel and poor man's Craig Krenzel.

It's an insult to Krenzel to even remotely compare the two.

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.

Bauserman taking a knee was his best execution on any play he was involved in today.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

That game was terrible. Luke Fickell should be ashamed. Bauserman was terrible and Fickell should have done something about it. The defense was decent considering how bad the O played.

Bauserman's final line: 16/30 for 189 and one TD against a bad MAC defense. Time to give him his clipboard. If Fickell keeps Bauserman as the primary QB, I will be pulling for him to be replaced. Bauserman lost his poise today.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

furls wrote:That game was terrible. Luke Fickell should be ashamed. Bauserman was terrible and Fickell should have done something about it. The defense was decent considering how bad the O played.

Bauserman's final line: 16/30 for 189 and one TD against a bad MAC defense. Time to give him his clipboard. If Fickell keeps Bauserman as the primary QB, I will be pulling for him to be replaced. Bauserman lost his poise today.

Exactly why I was almost hoping they would lose. I hate that play-to-not-lose bullshit.

Not sure how Braxton Miller didn't see the field at all. Like Bauserman was lighting it up or something.

Not sure how they didn't run the ball up the middle more and overpower them. They seemed to feel they could throw those short out passes and out-speed Toledo, but it was clear that they were no faster than the Rockets.

And does that represent a recruiting flaw, that the Buckeyes aren't any noticeably faster/stronger than a MAC team?

If Toledo goes 10-2 or some such, then maybe they're just a really good MAC team. We'll find out if the issue was the Bucks or the Rockets soon enough when OSU takes their talents to South Beach next week.

furls wrote:That game was terrible. Luke Fickell should be ashamed. Bauserman was terrible and Fickell should have done something about it. The defense was decent considering how bad the O played.

Bauserman's final line: 16/30 for 189 and one TD against a bad MAC defense. Time to give him his clipboard. If Fickell keeps Bauserman as the primary QB, I will be pulling for him to be replaced. Bauserman lost his poise today.

Exactly why I was almost hoping they would lose. I hate that play-to-not-lose bullshit.

Not sure how Braxton Miller didn't see the field at all. Like Bauserman was lighting it up or something.

Not sure how they didn't run the ball up the middle more and overpower them. They seemed to feel they could throw those short out passes and out-speed Toledo, but it was clear that they were no faster than the Rockets.

And does that represent a recruiting flaw, that the Buckeyes aren't any noticeably faster/stronger than a MAC team?

If Toledo goes 10-2 or some such, then maybe they're just a really good MAC team. We'll find out if the issue was the Bucks or the Rockets soon enough when OSU takes their talents to South Beach next week.

Buckeyes have plenty of speed on O at the WR slot. Bauserman flat out missed a lot of wide open WRs, not just with bad throws, he just didn't see them. The OLine should be ashamed for not being able to shove Toledo around, the RBs should be ashamed because they nearly lost this game with their inability to see and hit holes.

The Buckeyes desperately need Boom Herron and Jordan Hall back.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Oh yeah, the Linebackers were fucking terrible today as well. Toledo's GP was predicated around getting the ball into playmakers' hands quickly near the LOS and letting them make the first guy miss and our LBs were very happy to oblige.

That said, Sabino played a much better game than Klein (in spite of Klein's int). More speed, more agressive, quicker to the ball.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

furls wrote:Buckeyes have plenty of speed on O at the WR slot. Bauserman flat out missed a lot of wide open WRs, not just with bad throws, he just didn't see them. The OLine should be ashamed for not being able to shove Toledo around, the RBs should be ashamed because they nearly lost this game with their inability to see and hit holes.

I know, which might speak to just how speedy Toledo is. Akron was noticeably slower.

Which also speaks that team like Toledo that's fast should thus be susceptible to being pushed around by what HAS to be superior strentgh on the O Line. They did not run up the middle nearly enough.

It seems to me that (and it could just be faulty memory) that there was a time in Buckeye history when every starting RB that came down the line was NFL bound. Other than Beanie Wells, the recent crops have struck me as depressingly ordinary (that includes Boom too).

furls wrote:Oh yeah, the Linebackers were fucking terrible today as well. Toledo's GP was predicated around getting the ball into playmakers' hands quickly near the LOS and letting them make the first guy miss and our LBs were very happy to oblige.

That said, Sabino played a much better game than Klein (in spite of Klein's int). More speed, more agressive, quicker to the ball.

God yes. On Toledo's last TD drive, there was a little swing pass to that little RB they had, and 2 guys had him dead to rights at the line of scrimmage, and it only took one little (not even that spectacular) move for both of them to miss (not even touch him) and the play went 40 yards or something.

furls wrote:Oh yeah, the Linebackers were fucking terrible today as well. Toledo's GP was predicated around getting the ball into playmakers' hands quickly near the LOS and letting them make the first guy miss and our LBs were very happy to oblige.

That said, Sabino played a much better game than Klein (in spite of Klein's int). More speed, more agressive, quicker to the ball.

God yes. On Toledo's last TD drive, there was a little swing pass to that little RB they had, and 2 guys had him dead to rights at the line of scrimmage, and it only took one little (not even that spectacular) move for both of them to miss (not even touch him) and the play went 40 yards or something.

I saw that happen at least 3 times.

that was how they moved the ball the entire game. Toledo's GP was to just try not get sacked, understanding that their WRs would never EVER be open down field, and dink and dunk their way to the endzone. It worked and they almost won.

If OSU tackles well, Toledo scores 7 points in that game. Every TD was set up by long plays with missed tackles.

As for the speed size.... tOSU had speed and power advantages across the board in match ups (O vs. D and D vs. O) the issue was terrible execution. Bauserman had open WRs that he missed. Hyde missed holes that were apparent. The defense missed tackles. It was one of the most "unsound" games I have seen tOSU play since John Cooper was the coach.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

"We had a plan maybe to (play Miller) in that second quarter, very similar to last week," Fickell said. "But it just didn't work out the way we had probably planned it in our head."It was just the flow of the game. It's just one of those gut decisions you've got to make out there."

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